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“The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. Some of their most esteemed inventions have no other apparent purpose - for example, the dinner party of more than two, the epic poem, and the science of metaphysics.”

Humans Two Humor Seems Funny Purpose Human Beings Animal Party Greater Example Capacity Dinner Invention Boredom Bores Epic Metaphysics Dinner Party Epic Poems

Book:Minority Report

Source: Minority Report

“The test of civilization is the estimate of woman. Among savages she is a slave. In the dark ages of Christianity she is a toy and a sentimental goddess. With increasing moral light, and greater liberty, and more universal justice, she begins to develop as an equal human being.”

Humans Light Age Justice Dark Human Beings Liberty Moral Christianity Greater Society Civilization Equal Tests Universal Slave Goddess Toys Savages Sentimental Dark Ages

Author:George William Curtis

“We people of the world need to find ways to get to know one another - for then we will recognize that our likenesses are so much greater than our differences, however great our differences may seem. Every cell, every human being, is of equal importance and has work to do in this world”

People Knows World Way Needs Humans May Seems Differences Human Beings Greater This World Equal Importance Cells

Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“There are many stages of grief. It's sad, something coming to an end. It cracks you open, in a way -- cracks you open to feeling. When you try to avoid the pain, it creates greater pain. I'm a human being, having a human experience in front of the world. I wish it weren't in front of the world. I try really hard to rise above it.”

“When couples start a family, they give up their personal love to achieve a greater responsibility - to nurture their children into good human beings. Nothing should deter them from that goal until the kids are up on their own feet”

Giving Should Humans Children Kids Goal Human Beings Responsibility Greater Feet Achieve Couple Giving Up Nurture Good Human Being Personal Love

Author:Siddharth Katragadda

“To me it's still a greater miracle when a fly flies than when a human being undertakes to do so.”

Humans Stills Human Beings Greater Miracle Flight

Book:Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

“There is the voice that everybody hears... saying to you, "You should do this, you should be this, you ought to, you got to." And then there is the still small voice - for some people not so small - inside every human being that calls you to something that is greater than yourself.”

People Should Humans Stills Voice Human Beings Greater Ought Small Voice

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“The evolutionary vision is agnostic in regard to systems in the universe of greater complexity than those of which human beings have clear knowledge. It recognizes aesthetic, moral, and religious ideas and experiences as a species, in this case of mental structures or of images, which clearly interacts with other species in the world's great' ecosystem.”

World Humans Ideas Universe Religious Human Beings Moral Vision Cases Clear Greater Regard Structure Species Complexity Aesthetic Agnostic Ecosystems

Author:Kenneth E. Boulding

“The biggest straitjacket is all the prejudices that we carry around, and all the fears. But what if we just surrender to the fear? There are things greater than fear. The great, wonderful quality of human beings is that we can overcome even absolute terror, and we do.”

Ifs Humans Human Beings Quality Greater Wonderful Overcoming Prejudice Absolutes Terror Surrender What If

Book:Conversations with Isabel Allende

Source: Conversations with Isabel Allende

“Whenever a human being ceases to live for themselves and begins to care about that which is greater than themselves, the personality begins to experience ecstasy, joy and spontaneous liberation. And that's found through doing, through action, through giving, through deeply embracing the human experience.”

Giving Humans God Care Action Joy Spirituality Found Human Beings Greater Personality Experience Cease Liberation Ecstasy Spontaneous Human Experience

Author:Andrew Cohen

“The ever-growing power of a soulless political bureaucracy which supervises and safeguards the life of man from the cradle to the grave is putting ever-greater obstacles in the way of co-operation among human beings.”

Men Way Humans Political Human Beings Greater Growing Obstacles Graves Operations Bureaucracy Cradle Soulless

Book:Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice

Source: Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice

“Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. They have enabled a greater population to live the same life of drudgery and imprisonment, and an increased number of manufacturers and others to make fortunes. They have increased the comforts of the middle classes. But they have not yet begun to effect those great changes in human destiny, which it is in their nature and in their futurity to accomplish.”

Source: Principles of Political Economy, with Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy

“I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience, heightened creativity, or exceptional performance by athletes and artists, we harbor a greater life than we know.”

Source: A Mythic Life: Learning to Live Our Greater Story